California Legal Pros

Hired Cal Legal Pros and the list below was my experience. Since my case ended, Robin is no longer working with them and I did have a good encounter with Aaron; however they did not come through with what I hired them for and I actually decided to settle because I did not want to continue paying Andrew Gray to sit their waiting for the trial while encouraging me to allow our tenant to give me the padlock key that he placed on the door and walk away without paying rent for 5 months. Had it been handled professionally and I lost, I would not be resentful but I lost due to a lack of professionalism I believe.
Andrew Gray did not call me for at least two weeks, maybe more after I had asked that he contact me
Robin was 30 minutes late (I actually had to call her from the courthouse remind her to come) to our mediation and showed up in high heel flip flops emblazoned with rhinestones, as well as inappropriate clothing for a professional. She was reading through the material that I had brought (all copies were already emailed to her at least 2 weeks in advance) and asking me questions. I spoke during the entire mediation and she deferred to me which at this point I preferred. It was evident that the other attorney was also surprised by the person that I had hired. This got us off to a very bad start.
Andrew Gray came to the court house on time but huffing and puffing because he had to stop and buy a battery charger and his phone had no charge. He went and sat against the wall so that he would be near an outlet and charge his phone. He began by saying that he would do as I wished but we could always just settle. After the break he again told me that the other party was offering to give the key as long as we dismissed the rent and I decided that rather than paying a lawyer who did not have confidence in what he was doing I needed to be done.
I had all past tenants write letters stating what kind of a landlord we are, pictures of before and after, proper documentation for all documents served to our Tenent, text messages and voicemails from him asking if he could please stay (before he stopped paying rent)… the list goes on!
Nothing new popped up from the beginning of this case to the end so if I didn’t have a chance from the beginning, the case should not have been accepted. I should have been told that it was not worth my time. In my eyes, this was unethical.
I do believe strongly that had I done this by myself and not felt that I had someone to rely on it would have gone much better. There was nothing done on my behalf by either Robin or Andrew that could not have been done by a layperson.